{"id":1042076,"date":"2026-10-09T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042076"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:44:29","slug":"india-rubbishes-musks-oligarchs-charge-says-satellite-rules-are-non-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/india-rubbishes-musks-oligarchs-charge-says-satellite-rules-are-non-discriminatory\/","title":{"rendered":"India rubbishes Musk\u2019s \u2018oligarchs\u2019 charge, says satellite rules are \u2018non-discriminatory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Communications has rejected claims that India is unfairly delaying or blocking Starlink\u2019s plans to launch satellite internet services in the country. The ministry said India\u2019s regulatory framework for satellite communication is fair and applies equally to all companies. <\/p>\n<p>The clarification came after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk alleged that Starlink was being blocked by \u201ccertain oligarchs\u201d who wanted to protect their monopoly in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Communications has rejected claims that India is unfairly delaying or blocking Starlink\u2019s plans to launch satellite internet services in the country. The ministry said India\u2019s regulatory framework for satellite communication is fair and applies equally to all companies. The clarification came after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk alleged that Starlink was being blocked by \u201ccertain oligarchs\u201d who wanted to protect their monopoly in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042081,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042076\/revisions\/1042081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}